He was natural inside Windham, New York and received his Bachelor's degree in Economics from Hartwick College in 1979. He as well exposed economics and management for his MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He worked closely sustaining telecommunications engineers at Crocker National Bank in San Francisco between 1979 and 1986, and at Pacific Bell between 1986 and June 1995, and draws in their personalities for victims of his Dilbert characters. He is besides a CEO of Scott Adams Foods, Inc., makers of the Dilberito & Protein Chef, and a co-owner of Stacey's Café in Pleasanton, California. Very much of his interest in a food business comes from either the fact that he occurs as vegetarian.

He occurs as member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.

Publications
(watch as well Dilbert) Dilbert newsletter (since 1994) The Dilbert Principle (1996) ''Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook (1996) The Dilbert Future (1997) The Joy of Work (1998) God's Debris (2001) Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel (2002) The Religion War'' (2004)